Choosing a DVD Player
DVD technology has advanced incredibly in the few years that DVD players have been on the market, and the price drops have been stupendous. Like every single piece of A/V gear, you can spend a fortune [more…]
Getting Wired with Nanowires
Nanowires are simply very tiny wires. They are composed of metals such as silver, gold, or iron, or semiconductors such as silicon, zinc oxide, and germanium. Nanoparticles are used to create these little [more…]
Infrared HotSyncing Your Palm to Your Laptop
If you take advantage of IR HotSync, you can HotSync your Palm device to a laptop computer without lugging around a cradle or cable. This feature uses the same infrared [more…]
Enhancing and Managing Digital Photos with Roxio PhotoSuite 8
Roxio PhotoSuite 8 provides multipurpose editing for your digital photos. In addition to being able to make enhancements that fix flaws such as red eye, over- and underexposure, and blurriness, you can [more…]
Smart Playlists
iTunes comes with a few smart playlists. Under Party Shuffle (near the top of the Playlists section of the Source pane), you can find these smart playlists, which are indicated by a gear icon. iTunes comes [more…]
Choosing a Room for Your Home Theater
As you build your home theater, all roads lead back to making viewers feel as if they are really in the scene they're watching. Where you place your system plays a big part in creating this illusion of [more…]
Over-the-Road Wireless: The Standard Front-Runners
Although approximately 13 standards for wireless connectivity exist, fortunately, you don't need to become familiar with each and every standard. As you delve deeper into the wireless world, the standards [more…]
Exploring the Hardware That Makes Sound
It doesn't take any special equipment to play sound files. You probably already have the tools in your computer. But it's important to understand what makes the music happen. [more…]
Taking and Reading Memos on Your Palm Device
If you plan to use the Memo Pad to write down large amounts of information while you're away from your desk, it really pays to understand how to use Graffiti. You can get by in all the other Palm Computing [more…]
Windows XP Digital Music: Common Problems with Portable Audio Players
People make a few common mistakes when they're dealing with hard drive and flash memory portable audio players. Everybody makes them, and you will, too. This article can help you be better prepared to [more…]
Picking a Radio Club
The easiest way to get in touch with other hams is through the local radio club. Radio clubs have been around as long as radio. The first clubs were just groups of like-minded experimenters who collaborated [more…]
Recognizing the Role of Plug-Ins in Your PC Recording Studio
Plug-ins are an important part of your computer-based recording system and one of the features that sets it apart from your old tape deck. Plug-ins allow you to process the sound of your instrument in [more…]
Checking Signal Strength on Your Palm Device
As the Palm VII becomes popular, you'll be able to take advantage to wireless features nearly everywhere. In the early going, however, you'll be able to use Palm.Net, the Palm VII service, in only selected [more…]
Adding a New Entry in Your Palm Address Book
Many people have relied on a Little Black Book since even before Casanova. The paper kind served well until the computer came along and enabled you to find one name from a list of thousands faster than [more…]
Considering HDTV Copy-Protection Systems
Film and television studios are worried about people copying their programs and distributing them to others. HDTV (and DTV in general) is worrisome to the studios because people might be able to make [more…]
Making Your Own Albums with Roxio Media Manager
The media-file collections known as albums are a key element in the struggle to organize the many and various files you use in projects created with the Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 suite. Albums enable [more…]
Tracking Your Tasks on Your Pocket PC
Scheduling a specific time for tasks can be a real chore. How do you schedule something that doesn't really have a date associated with it? Still, a few tasks have at least some relationship to your calendar [more…]
HDTV Insights: Knowing Why Altitude Can Matter with Plasma TVs
Plasma TVs rely on a thin layer of gas (which gets ionized and eventually turns into the picture you see). If you think back to your chemistry classes in high school and college, you might start remembering [more…]
Adding New To-Dos on Your Palm Device
Adding items to the To Do List is as easy as you want to make it. If you want to keep track of short lists of simple projects, you can go a long way with the tools that come with a Palm device. If your [more…]
Deciding on the Best Route for Your Over-the-Road Wi-Fi
When it comes to over-the-road types, everybody's situation is vastly different. Because of that, there's not a universal solution to the question of how long any Wi-Fi subscription should be, which WISP [more…]
Recording a Note on Your Pocket PC
In addition to typing, handwriting, and drawing, you have another interesting option for creating a note. You can record a note in your own voice — or someone else's if you can get her to talk into your [more…]
Adding Categories to a To-Do List on Your Palm
People who use Palm devices are often busy people with scads of things to do. If you're usually juggling too many tasks to fit on one little screen, you'll find assigning categories to your tasks useful [more…]
Setting Up Custom Address Book Fields on Your Palm Device
Sometimes you need to keep track of something about the people you know but you don't already have a line (or field) for it on your Address List. For example, if your job involves selling merchandise to [more…]
Understanding What Makes Digital Sound Different from Analog Sound
Remember when musical recordings were stored on cassettes or vinyl records? These recordings stored sound in an analogformat — the sound was recorded to the disc or tape as physical grooves or magnetic [more…]
Analog to Digital: Exploring External Video Converters
You have a computer with a FireWire port, and you want to capture some analog video. What are you going to do? You have many solutions, of course. You can install a video-capture card, but a good one costs [more…]
